hardware texturing broken on Octane HELP

From: Khalid Schofield (oums0246_at_raven.linux.ox.ac.uk)
Date: 02/24/04


Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:41:58 +0000

Hi,
my hardware texturing is broken on my Octane. It gives weird colours :-(

Mplayer -vo gl2 is broke and gives purple or green colours only and the
'Distort' demo is also broke. I've removed my graphics board, removed the
tram module and used an air duster to remove any dust. I've reseated the
video boards but still have the problem. Any idea what it could be. Please
see

http://mainframe.homeunix.com/~khalid/video_problem.jpg

for a pic of my broken distort demo. Mplayer looks much the same. Any idea
what could be wrong?

This is a real problem now as I use hardware texturing a lot and it seems
to be totaly broken at the moment.

Could it be software thats the problem?

gfxinfo is

Graphics board 0 is "IMPACTSR" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 1280x1024
Product ID 0x2, 1 GE, 1 RE, 4 TRAMs
MGRAS revision 4, RA revision 0
HQ rev B, GE12 rev A, RE4 rev C, PP1 rev G,
VC3 rev A, CMAP rev E, Heart rev D
21" monitor (id 0xb)
Video board present

Channel 0:
 Origin = (0,0)
 Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 75.92Hz (1280x1024_76_32db)

running versions | grep GL I get

Octane 3% versions | grep GL I fw_gtkglarea 04/16/2003 gtkglarea-1.2.3
OpenGL widget for GTK+ I fw_hp2xx 04/16/2003 hp2xx-3.4.0 HP-GL image
conversion tools I fw_xtraceroute 11/22/2003 xtraceroute-0.9.0 OpenGL
based traceroute GUI I gl_dev.books.OpenGL_PG 05/17/2003 OpenGL
Programming Guide I gl_dev.books.OpenGL_Porting 05/17/2003 OpenGL Porting
Guide I gl_dev.books.OpenGL_RM 05/17/2003 OpenGL Reference Manual I
gl_dev.books.OpenGLonSGI 05/17/2003 OpenGL on Silicon Graphics Systems I
gl_dev.man 05/17/2003 GL Documentation I gl_dev.man.gldev 05/17/2003 GL
Development Manual Pages I gl_dev.man.relnotes 05/17/2003 GL Development
Release Notes I gl_dev.sw 05/17/2003 GL Software I gl_dev.sw.gldev
05/17/2003 GL Development Environment I gl_dev.sw.widget 05/17/2003 OpenGL
Widget Development Environment I gl_dev.sw64 05/17/2003 GL Software 64bit
I gl_dev.sw64.gldev 04/16/2003 64bit GL Development Environment I
gl_dev.sw64.widget 05/17/2003 OpenGL Widget 64bit Development Environment
I mpk_dev 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Development Environment,
3.0.0 I mpk_dev.man 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Documents I
mpk_dev.man.base 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Man Pages I
mpk_dev.man.pg 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Programmers Guide I
mpk_dev.man.relnotes 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Release Notes
I mpk_dev.sw 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Software I
mpk_dev.sw.base 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Headers I
mpk_dev.sw.examples 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Example Code I
mpk_eoe 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Execution Only
Environment, 3.0.0 I mpk_eoe.man 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library
Documents I mpk_eoe.man.relnotes 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library
Release Notes I mpk_eoe.man.ug 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Users Guide
I mpk_eoe.sw 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Executable Software I
mpk_eoe.sw.base 07/29/2003 OpenGL Multipipe SDK Library Shared Library I
performer_data 05/04/2003 OpenGL Performer 3.0.1 Database Samples I
performer_demo 05/04/2003 OpenGL Performer 3.0.1 Demos and Demo Data I
performer_eoe 05/17/2003 OpenGL Performer 3.0.1 Run-Time Environment I
shader_dev 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Development Environment I
shader_dev.man 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Reference I
shader_dev.man.compilers 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Compiler Man Pages
I shader_dev.man.isl 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 ISL Library
Documentation I shader_dev.man.relnotes 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1
Release Notes
I shader_dev.sw 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Software
I shader_dev.sw.compilers 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Software
I shader_dev.sw.examples 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Examples
I shader_dev.sw.headers 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Headers
I shader_dev.sw.liblinks 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Library Links
I shader_eoe 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Execution Environment
I shader_eoe.man 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Execution Environment Docs
I shader_eoe.man.isl 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 ISL Specification
I shader_eoe.man.relnotes 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Release Notes
I shader_eoe.sw 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Software
I shader_eoe.sw.libraries 05/04/2003 OpenGL Shader 3.0.1 Libraries